Printing posters



Jan. 5 1926. 1,568,105

H. c. TIFFANY PRINTING POSTERS F-iled March 20, 1922 FANY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Detroit, in the county I of Wayneand State of Michigan, have in Patented J an. 5, 1926.

:U lTED; STATE-5 PATENT OFFICE;

' awnin c. TIFFANY, or DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

rni'n'rme ros'rnns.

Application filed March 20, 1922. Serial No. 545,245.

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, HUMPHR'EY .C. TIF- vented certain new and useful Improvements in Printing Posters, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

" In printing large bill posters such as generally displayed on large street and road signs, it is the usual practicerto use a plurality of printing: plates'or blocks, the combined area of which will correspond to the poster to be printed, and verybften it is necessary to change one. of. the plates or blocks. For instance, the maker-of an automobile may resort to sign boardadvertising and have posters printed fordiiferentlooalities or territories, with the posters of" each locality or territory provided with thejname and address of the automobile distributor or agent. a For one style of poster, when universally displayed, it .may be necessary to provide a great many printingfpl ates or blocks containing the names and" addresses of distributors and after such blocks are used they are generallydiscarded'and cannot be conveniently used for any other purpose. This contributes to the high cost of poster printing and as far as I am aware no other system of printing such large posters has been employed. To reduce this expense, however, some advertisers have provided special labels that may be pasted on the large posters but such labels ordinarily require individual printing blocks and the paste destroyed the general appearance of a high class poster.

My invention aims to obviate the necessity of providing special printing plates or blocks for the production of large bill posters; to eliminate the waste and expense incident thereto, to obviate the necessity of providing special labels or posters for changing parts of a bill poster, and to provide a font of type blocks which will permit of selected blocks being assembled to make up the equivalent of what has been heretofore placed on a single plate or block. In other words, instead of using a one-piece block or etched zinc plate to produce a portion of a sign, I use a plurality of type blocks or plates that may be assembled according to the portion of the sign to be produced, and after such individual plates or blocks have been used in anassembled for future use in connection with the same or other printing of bill posters.

Other advantages of my invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art of printing large posters and in order that my invention may be understood, it will be hereinafter more fully described by aid of the accompanying drawing, wherein- Figure 1 is a front elevation of a bill poster having a blue background on white paper with the characters of the sign in the natural color of the paper, and indicating by cross hatching the manner in which the printing may be accomplished by using a plurality of blocks to provide overlapped ink portions; r

Fig. 2 is a plan of an incised type block in accordancewith this invention;

Fig. '3 is across sectional view of the same, and I v Fig. 4 is an enlarged front elevation of a portion of a poster showing how the individual type blocks may produce a portion of a poster.

'In-,Fig. 1 I show a large bill poster as having a wide border 1, a blue background 2 and reading matter 3 corresponding in color to the white border 1 or the color of the paper or material on which the bill poster is printed.

My invention aims to provide a font of type blocks, one of which is shown in Figs.

2 and 3 and designated 6, and the result Ill] abbreviations, symbols and indicia as may be common in the make up of various kinds of bill posters.

The type blocks can be easily placed side by side when properly selected to make up a portion or panel 4 of the sign and said blocks may have the side walls thereof finished true for perfect abutting relation so that the selected blocks may be suitably llO 886 F to Whe e: e bac gr und ha be shaded'to d cate hea e pr nt n a at 8, but since such printing, is in one color,

it cannotbe detected at a distal nge even thou h a shade darker than thebuckgronnd b ,7 v v. r.-

or bcdyioi'i e n ster- A pr sc bed; 1 1 2 Qt; tester having been printed with in desiredpanel; the type,

blocks may be knocke il dgwn and. if; neccssary, used; to torn'r another sign or; preduce other panels, Q0l1qt1ently the. type blocks may belrepeatedlynsed for producing different signswin connection with the general poster. It is alsooby ous thata font of type, blocks in accerdancewithnrv invent on Wlll at all times becony enient forprinting any poster; that there is no Waste of Wood or material due to type blocks being discarderh and in conSi quence of the time saved in carving, largeblQCks and; the material entering into such blocks there is a great. saying in the cost ot-printiug bill posters.

My. method; ofprinting differs from the,

ordinary. type qt plates insomuclr that. I use individual reverse characters on tl e like for, imprinting andit isubel eued that, such in..-

dividual; type blocks can only be advantageously used on posters, observed f rqm a distan cepfroin wliere slight imperfections that might occur cannot be detected' In other Words, the background of a poster is suflicient to practically obliterate any fine lines or demancations that may result from adjoining type block s vand since I gain distinct advantages over the present system of printing posters, I desire to be understood that my invention. isnot necessarily limited to .matei' ia ls entnilng iutothe type blocks, but

Inayincl ude all such ramifications of my invention as tall 'witliin the scope of the appended claimi for instance, a zine plate containing a singlefetched character or the likeimay be mounted on a block, cylinder. or other holdersothat it may be again used and, thustul fill ea zny the same purpose as; though; the blocket; weed 'were used for an enr et- What I claim isg In theart of printing largep stershaying a, elidi 63 9? bis eemhe y di d blocks adapted to print a portion r panel of; the posterg means for printing such repels, c innns ns es ee: i t c gea blocks the prlnt ng surfaces of Whiclr form a cqmmen bac lrgrqund for ink adapted to Pledges the 9 9 background of e Pos certa n qt said interchangeahle, blocks adapted tojmprint over themarginso f the baekgroundfformedfby adjacent blocks. so

that, there areoyerlappedjnk portionsadja;

gent eachpanel obliterating any hnedemarticnh w e pens nt t mqny here t I fl x a s g a IJ PH EY 0- 'TIERANY- 

